tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4253582723175773190..comments2016-12-09T11:47:52.410-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Creatures of What Gods? (Abandoned Animals, Exclusion Zone, Fukushima Prefecture)Zephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70553688052571715752011-04-15T19:44:48.106-07:002011-04-15T19:44:48.106-07:00I too would be, if I did... but, curiously, it see...I too would be, if I did... but, curiously, it seems also possible to feel ashamed of it while not participating in it, or participating in it only miminally, and unwillingly, and when there&#39;s no way around it.<br /><br />But it&#39;s like the Great Wall. There&#39;s no Outside. <br /><br />Once there might have appeared some way of trying to change it for the better. <br /><br />To no longer be able to perceive such a way is not only frustrating but shameful.<br /><br />A great sigh for the fate of that devastating innocence which once had blessed us. When it looks at us from the beseeching distance of the betrayed, there is a sense of desolation... and, yes, shame.<br /><br />The more stray and abandoned cats show up in the night to beg for food (more all the time, people in bad economic straits are abandoning them wholesale around here), the clearer this becomes.<br /><br />(Having just interrupted this to put out dinner for a stranger cat who has followed the underground trail to the battered back door.)TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42651737686028554932011-04-15T18:58:29.026-07:002011-04-15T18:58:29.026-07:00Devastating innocence.
We owe so much and only k...Devastating innocence. <br /><br />We owe so much and only keep on taking more. Many days I am ashamed to be a person participating in modern society.Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12452842332549541201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90267969940201787632011-04-14T10:48:11.274-07:002011-04-14T10:48:11.274-07:00Terrible stuff.
&#39;Nobody ever accused a dog o...Terrible stuff. <br /><br />&#39;Nobody ever accused a dog or a cow of splitting the atom&#39;<br /><br />For the dogs left behind Tom- <a href="http://dippingbutterflies.blogspot.com/2010/12/winter-poem.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>adityahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61479504989161855202011-04-14T01:47:07.556-07:002011-04-14T01:47:07.556-07:00Know what you mean, O. Mainstream news is a raging...Know what you mean, O. Mainstream news is a raging torrent with no mind and once it&#39;s swept through a story, there had better not be any details to go back and pick up. <br /><br />But this side channel rivulet of the great tragedy troubles my sleep. Those animals were once the providers, whether of sustenance or companionship, for the human &quot;masters&quot; who vanished as if they&#39;d been ghosts. <br /><br />Looking at those cows, the old phrase &quot;to put [something or someone] out [its/his/her] misery&quot; kept popping up in the involuntary part of the thinking apparatus.<br /><br />Another one, too, even worse: &quot;no mercy&quot;. <br /><br />(I believe that&#39;s what sportsmen are meant to show to their opponents... which must mean the animals were never really on &quot;our team&quot; in the first place.)TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42289801691785405172011-04-13T14:35:39.639-07:002011-04-13T14:35:39.639-07:00Heartbreaking stuff. Mainstream news has been espe...Heartbreaking stuff. Mainstream news has been especially neglectful this time around. I guess it&#39;s up to the poets...poetowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11278368064478791137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16491990739301230522011-04-13T07:11:07.893-07:002011-04-13T07:11:07.893-07:00Of course it&#39;s all right, Curtis. If there&#39...Of course it&#39;s all right, Curtis. If there&#39;s any point at all in looking upon these images, it&#39;s in helping ourselves and others to begin to feel life in all its many surprising and unexpected manifestations, and perhaps good thoughts and good acts among the living will then somehow, somewhere, sometime, follow. Despite everything, even, maybe.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91175660677659896152011-04-13T06:34:33.176-07:002011-04-13T06:34:33.176-07:00I have sent this along as a link to a couple of or...I have sent this along as a link to a couple of organizations we support, Farm Sanctuary and PETA, as well as a few other outlets, including my college&#39;s two newspapers. (It will be very interesting to see the response I receive from them; things have changed a lot since I attended college and things are really focused on the &quot;personal&quot; these days, it seems, with a very narrow focus on what that means.) I would also like to post this as a link on my own blog if that&#39;s all right with you.curtisrobertshttp://curtisroberts.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67962114656496767442011-04-13T06:31:27.705-07:002011-04-13T06:31:27.705-07:00Thank you, Curtis, for rescuing me from a drive-by...Thank you, Curtis, for rescuing me from a drive-by dog-meat offering at Minamisoma a few minutes ago.<br /><br />In the street last night a woman of approx. 68 years of age, give or take a few months, explained to me that the events in Japan are but a small scene of the larger scenario that features the imminent reversal of the Poles, 600 foot tsunamis on the West Coast and so on, leading unto 2012.<br /><br />&quot;The only safe place is going to be Arizona, you bet,&quot; she said.<br /><br />A young man from Oakland overheard this and mumbled, &quot;I been to Arizona. Brother don&#39;t let the sun go down on him in Arizona.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;It&#39;s all been written,&quot; she went on. <br /><br />Where, then, if may I ask? I made the mistake of asking.<br /><br />(Humouring public intensities of this sort can be fraught.)<br /><br />&quot;From this guy ___ who&#39;s on the internet all the time in the public library.&quot;TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69635625366807045462011-04-13T05:53:59.985-07:002011-04-13T05:53:59.985-07:00Odd as it sounds, thank you for this. Other than t...Odd as it sounds, thank you for this. Other than that, I just don&#39;t know what to say, except that the questions you ask and &quot;No, the images must be meant for us&quot; say everything I can think of at the moment.curtisrobertshttp://curtisroberts.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com